@saydrandle.bsky.social
Assistant prof of urban studies at Singapore Management University. These days, writing mostly about water, climate adaptation, resource storage, and wild hogs. Author of Replumbing the City (University of California Press 2025). saydrandle.com
There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
The issue contains a seven-article Symposium, "Political Ecologies of Storage for the 21st Century", organised by @saydrandle.bsky.social and @matthewarcher.bsky.social
What, and I repeat, the fuck?
I trust any source Jeremy trusts and will be taking his advice tonight.
legends walk among us
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Columbia student and New Yorker, Mahmoud Khalil - who was targeted and detained for constitutionally protected speech - should be home with his 8 months pregnant wife today.
Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers.
1/15
Tomorrow in NYC will be sunny & pleasant. This will be important.
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.
This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
The past month seems to have spiked interest in questions about how and why water circulates (or not) within the US West. This collection offers some rich, thoughtful, and challenging answers. Thanks to my co-editor Kathleen Sullivan and all the contributors for your work on bringing it into being
The water misinfo climate is rife.
Many conspiracy theories around the LA wildfires + water supplies revolve around billionaire pistachio moguls in the central valley and clearing the land for "open air prisons".
@npr.org did a fact-check ⬇️
Shoutout to Kathryn McConnell and @koslov.bsky.social for putting together a very useful primer on managed retreat as a response to wildfire risk, a topic that deserves much more serious thought and attention than it's getting at the moment
Fires are burning blocks away from where Octavia Butler is buried.
www.latimes.com/california/s... shuddering at the images and stories trickling in, friends please stay safe
"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
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"A new analysis skewers the assumption that a ton of CO2 is the same everywhere, whether in the atmosphere, embedded in wood or pumped underground. Turns out that's a vast oversimplification & could render net-zero efforts meaningless" - from @eroston.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘The smell hurts’: why has the supreme court washed its hands of Argentina’s ‘rotten river’?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... key points esp re:soil carbon storage fantasies...
Some good climate news: judge rejects Gov. Youngkin's attempt to ignore Virginia state law in trying to withdraw from the regional greenhouse gas initiative (RGGI). Great work from NRDC!
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
Matthew's book is rad, highly encourage anyone lucky enough to be in London to attend
BIG NEWS: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans.
And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.
We explained this lawsuit here:
“the violence wreaked on Black, Indigenous, and Global South communities through enslavement, empire, and colonialism has always been intergenerational. The effects of violence on those communities haunt contemporary arguments about loss and damage.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The enabling conditions for the abuse revealed from 2016 onward seem so obvious (and publicly documented) in retrospect. The Karolyis' culpability is their legacy... but likewise for all the people and systems that enabled them for the sake of the medals
www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta... Given Bela's passing, it's striking to read articles like this one from 1991. So much is spelled out: the conventional wisdom about tiny bodies he did so much to create, the isolated training environment of the ranch, the silent gymnasts...
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
From September but far more helpful than most of the post-election commentary floating around at the moment
A recording of the 2024 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture, "Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives" by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social is now available at antipodeonline.org/2024/08/14/2...
